We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
Where there is love there is life.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Old age is by nature rather talkative.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.